Today’s coastal race during the Cascais stopover is the first opportunity for teams to earn bonus points on the overall leaderboard of The Ocean Race Europe. The winner in each class (VO65 and IMOCA) will collect 3 points, 2nd place earns 2 points, and third place is good for a single scoring point. In addition, the top teams will be awarded prize money as part of the Mirpuri Foundation Sailing Trophy.

Simeon Tienpont: “It’s amazing to be out and race again. Besides the offshore legs the team is hungry to win in the in port series like in the Mirpuri Coastal race. We have a bunch of young professionals onboard with a lot of match race experience so we’re looking forward to it. We want to show our best especially for those making it possible for us to compete in this campaign: Janssen de Jong Groep, Slättö, New Horizon and Neptunia.”

Start time is 12:05 local time (13:05 CEST) for the VO65 class on Saturday afternoon, with the IMOCA class starting 10 minutes later at 12:15 local / 13:15 CEST. The forecast is for 20 knot northwesterlies along a race course that takes the teams approximately 40 nautical miles, with a short upwind out to Cabo Raso, and then back down to a turning mark to the southeast of the entrance to the Tagus River before turning back again to the finish off the Clube Naval de Cascais.

Coverage Coastal Race
With the extended race course, live coverage will be via Twitter commentary by sailing journalists Matthew Sheahan and Niall Myant-Best. Photos and video clips will be available during and after the race and the Race Tracker will be live as well. Next to that, we will keep you updated through our Instagram Live stories. And we will have a Coastal Race Recap ready at the end of the day.

Update 17.45 CEST
The Mirpuri Foundation Racing Team has won the coastal race, earning three bonus points on The Ocean Race Europe scoreboard. AkzoNobel Ocean Racing in second place earns two points while Sailing Poland in third place collects a single scoring point.

VO65 RESULTS
1. Mirpuri Foundation Racing Team (3 points)
2. AkzoNobel Ocean Racing (2 points)
3. Sailing Poland (1 point)
4. Viva Mexico
5. Team Childhood
6. Ambersail2
7. Austrian Ocean Race Project

Team Childhood I ready for Mirpuri Foundation Sailing Trophy coastal race